Gov. Jeff Landry has appointed Gary Westcott as secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, where he will ...

Louisiana is challenging a federal decision to slash the cost of many phone calls from prison, which advocates ... budget problems for sheriffs and state prisons. Last July, the Federal ...

Voters will decide whether to make easier to send teenagers to adult prisons ... Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to ...

Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. Louisiana plans to ...